Selected Publications (Articles with an title in blue color can be downloaded by clicking on the title)
Wang, X.T. &
Dvorak, R. D. (in press). Sweet Future:
Fluctuating blood glucose levels affect future discounting. Psychological Science.
Wang, X.T., Kruger, D. & Wilke, D (2009). Life history variables and risk taking propensity. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 77-84.
Zhang, W. H. & Wang, X.T. (2008). Self-framing,
risk perception and risky choice. 自我框架，风险认知和风险选择. Acta Psychologica Sinica (中国心理学报). 40, 633-641.
Wang,
X.T. (2008). Risk
communication and risky choice in context: Ambiguity and ambivalence hypothesis.
Annals of the
Wang,
X.T. (2008). Decision
heuristics as predictors of public choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 77-89. Featured
in Science News article “Simpleminded Voters” http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/33352/title/Simpleminded_Voters
Kruger,
D. J., Wang, X.T. & Wilke, A. (2007). Towards the development of an
evolutionarily valid domain-specific risk-taking scale. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 555-568.
Wang, X.T. (2007). Evolutionary psychology of
investment decisions: Studies of expected personal money allocation and
differential parental investment in sons and daughters. Acta
Psychologica Sinica (中国心理学报), 39, 406-414.
Wang, X.T. (2006). Emotions within reason: Resolving conflicts in risk
preference. Cognition
& Emotion, 20, 1132-1152.
Wang, X.T. & J. S. Simons
(2005). Reference
points-dependent tradeoffs in intertemporal decision making. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 28, 663-664.
Wang,
X.T. (2004). Self-framing of
risky choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 7, 1-16.
Keller, M., Gummeran, M., Wang, X.T. & Lindsey, S.
(2004). Understanding
perspectives and
emotions in contract violation: Development of deontic and moral reasoning.
Child Development, 75, 614-635.
Xie. X.F. & Wang,
X.T. (2004). Reference points and
managers’ cognitive characteristics in risky situations.
Acta
Psychologica Sinica (中国心理学报),
36,
575-585.
Krauss, S., & Wang, X.T. (2003). The psychology of the Monty Hall problem: Discovering psychological mechanisms for solving a tenacious brain teaser. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 3-22.
Xie, X.F. Wang, X.T. (2003). Dimensions in risk-taking: Gain-loss situation, opportunity-threat perception, and achievement-avoidance motive. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 6, 117-132.
Wang,
X.T. (2002). Risk as
reproductive variance. Evolution and
Human Behavior, 23, 35-57.
Wang,
X.T. (2002). A kith-and-kin
rationality in risky choices: Empirical examinations and theoretical
modeling. In
F. Salter (Ed.), Risky Transactions: Trust, Kinship, and Ethnicity (pp.
47-70).
Wang, X.T. (2001). Introduction: bounded
rationality of economic man: New frontiers in evolutionary
psychology and bioeconomics. Journal of
Bioeconomics, 3, 84-89.
Landa, J. & Wang, X.T. (2001). Bounded rationality of economic man: Decision making under ecological, social and institutional constraints. Journal of Bioeconomics, 3, 217-235. Chinese translation by 牛京辉: 经济人的有限理性：在生态的、社会的和制度的限制之下作决策. 《新哲学》第八辑（2008 王中江主编， 北京， 大象出版社ISBN 978-7-5347-5081-6）
Wang, X.T., Simons, F., & Bredart, S. (2001). Social
cues and verbal framing in risky choice. Journal of Behavioral
Decision Making, 14, 1-15.
Wang,
X.T. (2000). How can we be
rational in a world of risks and uncertainties. Evolution
and Human Behavior, 21, 347-352.
Rode C, & Wang, X.T. (2000). Risk-sensitive
decisions examined in an evolutionary framework.
American Behavioral Scientist, 43, 926-939.
Wang,
X.T. (1996). Framing effects:
Dynamics and task domains. Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision
Processes, 68, 145-157.
Wang,
X.T. (1996). Domain-specific
rationality in human choices: Violations of utility axioms and
social contexts. Cognition. 60,
31-63.
Wang, X.T. (1996). Evolutionary
hypotheses of risk-sensitive choice: Age differences and perspective
changes. Ethology and
Sociobiology. 17, 1-15.
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